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THE LOVER ARCHETYPE.

You Lead With Your Body.

You feel everything. You live in sensation, presence, and embodied desire. While others strategize or analyze or transcend, you drop into your body and let it tell you the truth.

This isn't weakness. This is profound intelligence.

Your body knows things your mind hasn't figured out yet. You can walk into a room and sense what's alive and what's dead. You know if something's right within seconds of feeling it. You don't need a pros and cons list—you need to feel if it's a yes in your system.

The world will tell you this is too much. That you're too sensitive, too intense, too feeling. That you need to think more, analyze more, protect yourself more.

They're wrong.

Before you dive into your archetype, just know...

You're not too much.
You're not too sensitive.
You're not too feeling.

You're a Lover. And the world needs you exactly as you are.

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GIFTS

You create intimacy like breathing.
Most people perform connection—you actually create it. You show up so fully present that people feel seen for the first time in years. You don't need techniques or scripts. Your presence is the technique.

Your body is your compass.
You know what's true by how it lands in your system. Tightness in your chest means no. Openness in your belly means yes. Aliveness in your skin means you're on the right path. You don't override these signals—you trust them.

You help people come home to themselves.
In your presence, people drop out of their heads and into their bodies. You remind them what it feels like to be alive in a physical form. You're a walking permission slip to feel.

You metabolize life through sensation.
You don't just think about experiences—you feel them, taste them, embody them fully. This is how you integrate. This is how you know. Through your skin, your breath, your nervous system.

You make everything sacred.
Touch, food, sex, conversation—you bring full presence to everything. Nothing is mundane when you're paying attention. You turn ordinary moments into ceremonies just by being fully there.

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SHADOWS

You lose yourself in relationships.
When you fall, you fall completely. Boundaries dissolve. Your needs disappear. You become consumed by the other person's experience, their feelings, their desires. You wake up six months later and don't recognize yourself.

You mistake intensity for truth.
Just because something feels powerful doesn't mean it's right. Just because your body says yes in the moment doesn't mean it's a yes for your life. You can be seduced by sensation and miss the bigger pattern.

You have no container when you're feeling.
Your emotions flood you. You can't think clearly when you're in the feeling. You need others to hold you, reflect you, remind you of what's true beyond this moment. Without that external structure, you spiral.

You use feeling to avoid thinking or leading.
When it's time to make a hard decision or set a boundary, you collapse into your feelings. "I don't know, I just need to feel it out." Sometimes you do. But sometimes you're using sensation to avoid responsibility.

You need constant stimulation.
When life gets routine, you get restless. You need newness, intensity, aliveness. You'll create drama just to feel something. You'll blow up what's working because it's become too stable, too predictable, too safe.

You attract people who want to consume you.
Your openness, your availability, your capacity to feel—people sense it and want to feed on it. You become the emotional regulator for everyone around you. You give and give until you're empty.

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BEST MATCHES: WHO CAN ACTUALLY MEET YOU

KINGS - Can hold you while you feel everything.
Kings have the sovereign structure to contain your intensity. They don't collapse when you're in your depths. They can stay grounded while you flow. They provide the container your nervous system needs. But make sure they're not trying to control or manage your feelings—you need a King who respects your body's wisdom.

WARRIORS - Match your intensity without trying to fix you.
Warriors understand embodied presence and direct engagement. They can meet you in the fire without trying to put it out. They respect your depth. They won't ask you to be less. But watch for Warriors who want endless battle—you need someone who can rest with you too.

ARTISTS - Understand beauty, sensation, and soul.
Artists get it. They value presence, beauty, embodied experience. They see your depth as gift, not problem. They create alongside you. But two Artists can get lost in sensation together—you need grounding too.

QUEEN ENERGY (in anyone) - Gives you boundaries while you feel.
You need people who can hold boundaries while staying open. Queen energy says "I love you AND I have limits." This is what lets you feel safely—knowing there's a container.

MOTHER ENERGY (in anyone) - Holds you without trying to change you.
Sometimes you just need to be held while you feel. Mother energy can do this. But watch out for people who want to mother you instead of meet you as an equal—you're not a child, you're a woman who feels deeply.

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PATTERNS TO WATCH FOR

 

RECLUSES who can't give you the connection you need
You'll be endlessly trying to get them to come out and feel with you. They'll keep retreating. You'll feel abandoned and they'll feel suffocated. Mismatched nervous systems. The lover can sense this if you are fully in your body.     

BUSINESS MEN who want to "solve" your feelings
"Have you tried making a plan?" Yes. That's not the point. You don't need solutions, you need presence. Business Men often can't give you that.

ROCK STARS who match your intensity but can't build anything lasting
You'll have incredible chemistry. The sex will be transcendent. And then six months later you'll realize you've been performing connection instead of building it. All intensity, no depth.

People who need you to regulate them
You're so good at feeling, at being present, at holding space—people will use you as their emotional support system. Sometimes, that's normal. But if it's most of the time, you'll become their therapist, their mother, their emotional regulator. 

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GROWTH EDGES: WHERE YOU'RE BEING CALLED

Integrate Queen: Boundaries while staying open
You don't have to choose between feeling and protecting yourself. You can feel deeply AND have clear boundaries. This is your edge. Queen energy teaches you to hold your throne while staying in your heart.

Integrate Sage: Perspective on what you're feeling
Sometimes you need to step back and look at the pattern. Sage energy helps you understand what you're feeling without getting lost in it. You can feel AND think. They're not enemies.

Integrate Mystic: Trust what's beyond the body
You're so embodied that you can miss the spiritual. Mystic energy reminds you there's depth beyond sensation. Sometimes the body needs to rest and let spirit lead.

Learn to lead from your body
Your embodiment is power, not weakness. But you have to learn to lead from it—not collapse into it. Your body can be your authority. "This doesn't feel right" can be a complete sentence. You don't need to justify it.

Build capacity to feel without losing yourself
This is the ultimate work. Feeling everything without becoming everything. Staying in connection without merging. Being present without disappearing. You can do this. It just takes practice.

THE LOVER'S WORK IN THE WORLD

You teach presence.

You remind people what it means to be alive in a body. You create experiences—in bed, in conversation, in art, in healing—that bring people back to themselves.

You build through beauty and sensation. You make things that feel good, that matter, that move people. You create intimacy where there was distance. You help people feel again.

This is not small work.

The world is full of people living in their heads, disconnected from their bodies, performing connection instead of creating it. You show them another way.

You're here to feel. Fully. Deeply. Without apology.

And when you do this with boundaries, with awareness, with your full power—you change everything you touch.

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SOMATIC: WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM

You're living primarily in ventral vagal (social engagement) and you drop easily into sympathetic (activation, aliveness, intensity). This is your sweet spot—connected, feeling, alive.

Your nervous system craves:

  • Contact and co-regulation
  • Sensation and presence
  • Embodied aliveness
  • Emotional attunement

What dysregulates you:

  • Emotional disconnection (sends you into collapse)
  • Being asked to "think it through" or "give space" or change your expression when you're in a feeling state
  • Routine without novelty
  • People who can't match your depth or presence

Your regulation pattern:
You regulate through connection and sensation. When you're stressed, you don't want to be alone—you want to be held, touched, felt. You need embodied presence with another nervous system that can meet yours.

Your collapse looks like:
Dissociation from your body. Numbness. Going through the motions. When you can't feel anymore, you know something's very wrong.

The work:
Learning to hold your own nervous system when connection isn't available. Building the capacity to feel intensely WITHOUT losing yourself. Developing internal structure (Queen, Sage) so your feelings have a container.

EMBODIMENT PRACTICES FOR THE LOVER

Boundary practice: Feel the edge of your skin
Your biggest work is boundaries. Practice this: Stand and feel the edge of your skin. Notice where you end and the world begins. This is your boundary. Practice feeling it several times a day. You exist. You have edges. You're not merged with everything.

Grounding when overwhelmed: Feet on earth
When your feelings flood you, get your feet on the ground. Actually on the earth if possible. Feel the weight of your body. Feel gravity. Let the earth hold you. You don't have to hold all of this alone.

Self-regulation: Hand on heart, hand on belly
When you're dysregulated and connection isn't available, put one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Breathe. This is self-co-regulation. Your own nervous system can hold you when others can't.

Sensation without story: Just feel
Practice feeling sensations without making them mean something. The tightness in your chest doesn't have to mean "something's wrong." It's just sensation. Let it move. Let it be.

Daily practice: What do I actually want?
You get so good at feeling what others want that you lose track of your own desires. Every day, ask: What do I want right now? Not what feels good to others. What do I want?

Movement as processing: Dance, shake, move
You metabolize experience through your body. When you're stuck, move. Dance. Shake. Let your body process what your mind can't figure out.

QUESTIONS FOR THE LOVER

Where do you lose yourself?
In what relationships, situations, or dynamics do you forget who you are? What pattern keeps showing up?

What are you avoiding by staying in the feeling?
Is there a decision you're not making? A boundary you're not setting? A truth you're not speaking? Sometimes feeling becomes the escape.

Who actually sees you?
Not who wants access to your body or your care—who actually sees YOU? Who witnesses your depths and stays? This is your person.

What would boundaries make possible?
If you could feel deeply AND maintain your edges, what would change? What would you stop tolerating? What would you start creating?

When do you feel most alive?
This is your compass. More of this. Whatever lights you up, whatever makes you feel most present in your skin—this is your path.

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HI! I'M CHRISTINA.

I'm an embodiment coach, a mom, an educator, and an entrepreneur. 

I began my own healing journey in my 30’s after a divorce and a career change. You can read more of my story here. Embodiment just worked for me. It works for my clients. I offer coaching and subscription courses for men and women. If you visit the homepage, I try to make the current offers super easy to understand! 

I am really proud of my community and I am really glad to have you join in. Embodiment and somatic work doesn't make it into the lives of most people but it really can help, it's pretty simple and it's fast. 

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